Larry,
Thank you for your workaround. I will experiment with it.
It is not angst (unless you consider the Great Firewall of the PRC an
issue for angst), but rather the inability to have bibliographic
integrity. A URL can be a bibliographic reference, just as is a proper
reference to a journal article or proceedings, an IETF RFC, etc. By
tampering with these bibliographic references, one loses integrity. The
issue of the possibly ephemeral nature of URLs, as compared with
traditional hardcopy or equivalently archived documents, is a separate
one, just as is the long term integrity of digital storage media. The
latter is a topic about which we can correspond off-SL-list, but is a
matter that is of significant concern to the community.
Yasjha
On 10/18/2018 08:20 AM, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
> Yasha,
> Did you try clicking on Nico's link? ProofPoint decodes their
> obfuscated re-write, checks to make sure it's a legit site, then opens
> the proper page.
> I just clicked on it and it took me to Nico's github scripts area.
>
> Our campus (UIUC) has used it for many years now. Fermilab just
> started using it. Lots of places use it. Arguably a somewhat
> contentious implementation, there are arguments for and against its
> use. The argument for (at the higher up level in an organization) is
> to keep people who blindly click on links in their email from going to
> bad nasty sites (think non-savvy students and other folks).
>
> For those of us who have been around and ALWAYS check an embedded link
> in email, it's a PITA! However, there are ProofPoint decoders out
> there. My favorite can be found here (and I am going to re-write the
> link with spaces in hopes that ProofPoint won't mangle it - we'll see...)
>
> https : // itsa . ifas . ufl . edu / email / proofpoint . shtml
>
> I have this bookmarked in my Chrome bookmarks bar for quick lookups.
>
> Hope that helps your angst somewhat.
> - Larry
>
>
> Yasha Karant wrote on 10/17/18 11:48 PM:
>> As I explained, I cannot transmit or receive URLs within SMTP email and
>> perhaps other modalities due to the security measures of the campus with
>> which I am associated, as you can see below in URL modification. Until
>> I can get my SL users email address permanently reset, please email any
>> URL information to [log in to unmask] . I apologize for this, but I have
>> no control or input to any system under the current campus
>> administration, as faculty (including tenured full professors) who are
>> not campus administrators (deans or higher administrators in most cases)
>> are informed of actions, but otherwise have little meaningful influence
>> over decisions.
>>
>> I will attempt to implement what is suggested below without access to
>> the Kadel-Garcia tool set, but I suspect that the tool set will save me
>> some time and effort.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience.
>>
>> Yasha Karant
>>
>> On 10/17/2018 08:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:07 PM Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> How does one update SL 7 using a mounted USB flash drive as the source
>>>> of a repo, rather than using any external network? There were
>>>> instructions for doing this for EL pre-7 distributions, but I cannot
>>>> find similar instructions for SL 7. I have a USB flash drive with the
>>>> current double-layer DVD SL7.5 install image (ISO) and that does
>>>> work --
>>>> I just did a fresh install of SL7.5 using this media.
>>> One sets up a new or one of the existing /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files
>>> to look at the locally mounted CD drive. I would copy "sl7.repo" to
>>> "sl7-local.repo", and reset the repository names to "sl7-local" and
>>> the like, and set their URLs to point to
>>> "file:///mountpoint/7.version/x86_64/os" and similar URLs.
>>>
>>> I've done just this sort of thing, successfully for internal SL,
>>> CentOS, and RHEL mirrors. You may find my tools at
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_nkadel_nkadel-2Drsync-2Dscripts&d=DwIBaQ&c=B_W-eXUX249zycySS1AyzjABMeYirU1wvo9-GmMObjY&r=Z7xHp2tIJsvAE2FtPxl_lynvf4hA_FJ8mKsaIgvY6Dk&m=RT1c81ULE-0AAXhmXl3Y0eaJZ0yPhGaZLHC9N3oM0hs&s=r3JZw6l5f9xZhSR9sTX2gWvskXqOW9_hfegrgK-QAvU&e=
>>> helpful for generateing
>>> your local mirror, especially the one for Scientific Linux.
>>
>>
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